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Zachary Shahan

Writer / Wrocław, Poland

Zachary Shahan has been the director of CleanTechnica.com and Planetsave.com since mid-2010. He's also the founder of SolarLove.org, EVObsession.com, and Bikocity.com. Outside of these blogs, he has been published on Scientific American, Reuters, ABB Conversations, GE's Ecomagination blog, Change.org, and probably a dozen other green sites.

Despite not being a "car guy," Zach made it onto a list of the "Top 20 Fuel Economy Influencers" in 2013, alongside President Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the US Secretary of Energy, then-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the heads of numerous automobile companies.

In the solar and wind energy space, Zach has been interviewed by CNBC and Harvard Business Review for a TV and Internet series titled "Energy Opportunities."

Prior to blogging, Zach received a bachelor's degree in sociology and environmental studies from Florida's honors college, New College of Florida, and then a master's degree in city & regional planning from UNC--Chapel Hill, the top graduate program in the nation for land use planning.

Latest Stories from Zachary Shahan - Page 3

I've been eating nutritional yeast essentially my entire life and love it on so many dishes, but I realize most people don't know what it is, so here's a quick rundown of its benefits and 11 ways to use it.

There have been books written about the "hydrogen hype," yet the hype continues. Julian Cox recently tore down the idea that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are green. Let's take a quick look at his key points.

Lloyd wrote up a great article yesterday summarizing the epic bike protected bike lane study that just came out. I'm going to dig in a bit more on one point – the explosive growth in bicycling on streets with two-way protected bike lanes.

Google announced this week that it's building 100 self-driving car prototypes, and Lloyd wrote a great piece discussing various city and planning implications, questions, & suggestions. Here are a few more points about the self-driving cars themselves.

IKEA is on its way to being powered 100% by renewable energy. It now sells solar panels in the UK. It has led the way with LEDs. And now it is adding electric bikes to its catalog... well, at two stores.

Elon Musk sent a thrilling chill through the electric car, energy storage, and investment sectors when he announced Tesla would be building a Gigafactory for electric car battery production. Now he's saying we'll need 200 Gigafactories!